Harry Cohen to Direct Balfour Ball;
Proceeds to Maintain Zionist House
'
A. C. Lappin, president of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
announces that Harry Cohen has
again agreed to head the Bal-
four Ball Committee.
Mr. Cohen, upon accepting
this assignment, declared: "I am
again undertaking this project
because I realize the important
place Zionism does and must
hold in the life of American
Jewry and in Israel. The Bal-
four Ball has greater signifi-
cance this year than ever before
because its proceeds will main-
tain the Zionist activities which
will be centered in the new
Zionist House, recently pur-
chased by the Detroit Zionist
District.
"This Zionist Home will be
the headquarters_ for the young
adult and- junior Zionist groups.
It will also house the Detroit
Zionist District and Michigan
and Ohio Valley Regional of-
fices, as well as the very busy
Israel Office of Information and
Service for Israel."
Mr. Lappin invites the Jewish
community to participate in
making the Balfour Ball a great
success.
Mayer Fails to Gain
French Leadership
PARIS, (JTA))—Rene Mayer,
Jewish jurist and former French
Minister of Justice who was ask-
ed by the French president to
form a new cabinet and become
Premier, failed to obtain the
necessary majority in the French
National Assembly. He was de-
feated 241 to 105, since 314 votes
constituted the necessary ma-
jority.
The principal element in his
defeat was a demand by the
pro-Catholic Popular Republican
Movement that the government
provide state aid for - church
schools. When Mayer refused,
Catholic deputies abstained. dur-
ing the vote of confidence. Mem-
bers of Gen. Charles de Gaulle's
party also abstained!
Shoes to Israel on Certificate
Plan at Local Zionist Office
THE JEWISH NEWS--5
Friday, August 3, 1951
Washington, Egypt
Reported in Deal
On Suez Blockade
By DAVID NUSSBAUM
(JTA Staff Correspondent)
ITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(J A)—The Western Powers are
studying the question of how to
treat a scarcely-veiled threat
gently dropped in their laps at
the UN Security Council session
on Thursday by Egyptian dele-
gate Mahmoud Fawzi Bey.
Fawzi Bey's speech at the
opening of the Council meeting
to consider Israel's complaint
against the Egyptian blockade of
Israel-bound shipping at the
Suez Canal seemed to confirm
inspired reports that Egypt had
made a deal with Washington.
This deal reportedly provides
that Egypt would refrain from
raising the issue of Britain's al-
leged violations of the Suez
Canal Convention of 1888 and
the Anglo-Egyptian , Treaty of
1936 and would accept a mild
Council resolution expressing
"concern" over Cairo's ban on
Israel-bound cargo through the
Suez Canal—a resolution Egypt
could ignore if • Washington suc-
ceeds in persuading the British
to settle for such a mild, non-
mandatory resolution.
Informed observers here be-
lieve that Israel will once more
fail to get satisfaction from the
Security Council as a result of
the American drive to appease
the Arab world.
The Council heard a strong
plea by Israel delegate Abba
Eban for a speedy and positive
Council action ordering a stop
to ban on an "aggressive"
act against Israel.
Ambassador Eban assailed the
contention lately being made by
Egypt that Cairo was exercising
belligerent rights in a situation
where a "state of war" existed.
Pointing out in the first in-
stance that Egypt was pledged
under the Suez Canal Conven-
tion of 1888 to keep the water-
way "always free and open," he
went on to concentrate his at-
tack on the notion that a state
of \ war existed betWeen Egypt
and Israel.
Rabbis, Laymen to Make ENT Appeals
In All Synagogues During Tisha b'Ab
Rabbis and laymen are join-
ing forces to participate in the
traditional Tisha b'Ab syna-
gogue appeals on Saturday night
and Sunday, Aug. 11 and 12, it
was announced by Irving W.
Schlussel, JNF president, and his
assisting committee.
Mr. Schlussel expressed the
hope that increased giving will
mark this year's responses to the
urgent call for funds for the
JNF.
All of . the Orthodox and Con=
servative congregations in De-
troit and Michigan cities will be
addressed during Tisha b'Ab
services. Those delivering ad-
dresses will include:
Irving A. Lawton, Percy A.
Berman (Grand Rapids), Albert
Nurke, Mr. Schlussel, Charles,
Wolok, Morris Mohr, Abe Nus-
baum, Dr. M. B. Zeff (Wyan-
dotte), Morris Ginsburg, William
Hordes, Louis Levine, Benjamin
M. Laikin, Moshe White, David
J. Cohen, Julius Ritten, Jacob
Lesser, Daniel Temchin, Morris
Snow, Isadore Sosnick, M. Cah,
Alex Roberg, Philip Stollmann,
David I. Berris, Zvi Tomkevich,
Joseph Balberor, Harry Cohen,
Nathan Spevakow, Benjamin As-
sik, David Silver, Ira Kaufman,
Harry Golden, Michael Michlin,
Samuel W. Platt, and the follow-
ing spiritual leaders:
Rabbis I. Goldman, Benjamin
Gorrelick, I. Strauss,• Louis E.
Kaufman (Mt. Clemens), L. Le-
vin, Moses Lehrman, S. Gruskin,
S. Prero.
Communist Paper Guilty
Of Libeling Ben-Gurion
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — A district
court found the Communist
newspaper Kol Haam guilty of
libel in depicting Premier David
Ben-Gurion as a "tool of Ameri-
can imperialism" and a traitor
to Israel's interests.
Judge B. Ginossar declared
that the defense had not proved
its assertion of Premier Bell-
Gurion's treason. He ordered
the editors to pay 150 pounds
($420) and to publish his deci-
sion and the sentence in three
consecutive daily issues of the
newspaper.
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$7.50 to $13.75
THE ETERNAL LIGHT
Time: 8 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 5.
Station: WWJ.
Feature: Rabbi Julius Mark,
of New York, will speak on
"Peace Is Possible," as part of
the summer series on "The
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Israelis may now receive certificates to purchase shoes on • a
similar plan which permits Israelis to receive food parcels. Cer-
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children's shoes at the Zionist, Office, 1031 Penobscot Bldg. Call
WOadward 5-1484 for further information.
While all Israel residents are permitted - only one pair of
shoes per year in accordance with present government restrictions,
arrangements have been made to permit Americans to send cer-
tificates to their friends and relatives in Israel which are used
to purchase the shoes in all Bata shoes stores throughout the
country.
These certificates in no way affect the present rationing
system. Shoe sizes' create no problem to the sender, since the
recipient may try on any size shoe he or she wishes at the store
in Israel and walk out with the shoes in exchange for the shoe
certificate.
The shoes are made in Israel at the General Shoe Corporation
located in Jerusalem. Purchases made here provide more dollars
and hard currency to the Israel government and create more jobs
for
new immigrants.
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